Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor Jamie Morgan
Professor
Professor Jamie Morgan lectures in the Subject Area of Economics, Analytics and International Business.
Jamie co-edits Real World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. RWER is the world's largest open source economics journal with over 26,000 subscribers and an average of over one million article downloads per year. On a new electronic impact rating RWER was ranked fifth from 307 economics journals. Contributors include prominent exponents in all fields of economics, including Nobel Prize winners. The RWER Blog has over 15,000 members and RWER is now also affiliated to the newly founded World Economics Association. The WEA has more than 14,000 members worldwide.
Jamie is the former coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economists. The AHE shares with the WEA and the Institute for New Economic Thinking a commitment to the need for a renewed and more open approach to economics. Over the last decade, Jamie has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.
Current Teaching
Jamie currently teaches a module on financial institutions and financial vulnerability.
Research Interests
Jamie works on contemporary problems and their socio-economic context, most recently: political transition (Brexit, Trump), corporate tax avoidance, climate change, financialisation, artificial intelligence and social change, and modern forms of slavery. He also has a longstanding interest in the philosophy, methodology and pedagogy of economics.
Jamie is an editorial board member of several journals and conducts peer review for many others. He supervises PhDs across the range of his interests.